A Cinema of Contradiction: Spanish Film in the 1960s

by Sally Faulkner

A key decade in world cinema, the 1960s was also a crucial era of change in Spain. A Cinema of Contradiction, the first book to focus in depth on this period in Spain, analyses six films that reflect and interpret these transformations. The coexistence of traditional and modern values and the timid acceptance of limited change by Franco's authoritarian regime are symptoms of the uneven modernity that characterises the period. Contradiction...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748621601
• ISBN13: 9780748621606
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher